HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

2581.

What Whale Barnacles Know (hakaimagazine.com)

39 points by Thevet on Dec 3, 2021 | 7 comments

2582.

The ultra-violent cult that became a global mafia (bbc.com)

39 points by rhu86 on Dec 13, 2021 | 5 comments

2583.

Over 1000 Microsoft employees shared salaries in a leaked spreadsheet (businessinsider.com)

39 points by zinxq on Dec 15, 2021 | 5 comments

2584.

Yale researchers develop mRNA-based lyme disease vaccine (yaledailynews.com)

39 points by markgavalda on Dec 14, 2021 | 3 comments

2585.

How I Self-Published My First Technical Book (lihaoyi.com)

39 points by lihaoyi on Dec 13, 2021 | 2 comments

2586.

Omicron Post #8 (thezvi.wordpress.com)

39 points by bryan0 on Dec 21, 2021 | 2 comments

2587.

Log libraries and the tendency to open holes in things (rachelbythebay.com)

39 points by picture on Dec 19, 2021 | 1 comments

2588.

G'mic 3.0: Two Years of Development in Image Processing (gmic.eu)

39 points by mario14 on Dec 18, 2021 | 0 comments

2589.

Dutch Security Researcher Receives Award for Hacking Dutch Tax Authority (twitter.com)

39 points by rastapotato on Dec 24, 2021 | 0 comments

2590.

Gov DeWine deploys National Guard to hospitals as COVID deaths surpass 2020 (ohiocapitaljournal.com)

38 points by Geekette on Dec 19, 2021 | 117 comments

2591.

Microsoft’s Halo Infinite Went from Disaster to Triumph (bloomberg.com)

38 points by danso on Dec 8, 2021 | 66 comments

2592.

You Don't Own Web3 (twitter.com)

38 points by whoisninja on Dec 21, 2021 | 56 comments

2593.

Quebec shuts down schools, bars, gyms and more (cbc.ca)

38 points by busymom0 on Dec 21, 2021 | 54 comments

2594.

Is there life after death? John Cleese discusses with panel of scientists (openculture.com)

38 points by miles on Dec 28, 2021 | 51 comments

2595.

Porsche Working on Synthetic Fuel to Make ICE Cars as Clean as EVs (caranddriver.com)

38 points by monkeydust on Dec 22, 2021 | 50 comments

2596.

The riddle of Japan's dramatic drop in Covid numbers (npr.org)

38 points by SQL2219 on Dec 21, 2021 | 49 comments

2597.

Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites (theglobeandmail.com)

38 points by manesioz on Dec 11, 2021 | 46 comments

2598.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is ‘Almost Certain,' Cyber Expert Says (spytalk.co)

38 points by zola on Dec 22, 2021 | 39 comments

2599.

Cat meow sounds visualized with auto-correlation function (soundshader.github.io)

38 points by gbh444g on Dec 9, 2021 | 34 comments

2600.

Review of “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?”

38 points by ak_111 on Dec 24, 2021 | 34 comments

2601.

CPUC Guts Solar Power in name of “equity,” adds $8/kW monthly charge paid to PGE [pdf] (docs.cpuc.ca.gov)

38 points by malchow on Dec 13, 2021 | 32 comments

2602.

Analyzing the public hostnames of Tailscale users (smitop.com)

38 points by smitop on Dec 16, 2021 | 31 comments

2603.

Solid Snake-Oil Storage: This SSD Is Aimed at Audiophiles (tomshardware.com)

38 points by ItsTotallyOn on Dec 18, 2021 | 31 comments

2604.

Christmas in 19th-Century America (1995) (historytoday.com)

38 points by samizdis on Dec 14, 2021 | 30 comments

2605.

Show HN: Embed your source code in PNG files (github.com)

38 points by cyansmoker on Dec 23, 2021 | 28 comments

2606.

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct (scientificamerican.com)

38 points by sharkweek on Dec 2, 2021 | 23 comments

2607.

Omicron Is the Beginning of the End (theatlantic.com)

38 points by yarapavan on Dec 26, 2021 | 22 comments

2608.

DuckDuckGo is working on a privacy-focused desktop browser (theverge.com)

38 points by panda88888 on Dec 22, 2021 | 20 comments

2609.

Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive (irchiver.com)

38 points by lazyjeff on Dec 3, 2021 | 15 comments

2610.

Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant in Tightly Monitored Isolation (wwwnc.cdc.gov)

38 points by DrScump on Dec 31, 2021 | 15 comments